Whuan-400 a.k.a. Gorki-400

So yeah, I didn’t think I’d write another post about this wild conspiracy theory that Dean “accurately predicted” the coronavirus but here we are again. The reason I am is that folks are getting a simple basic fact wrong: The fact that Dean wrote about Wuhan-400 in 1981 when The Eyes of Darkness was originally published. Turns out, the virus in the book was originally from Russia and named Gorki-400. It wasn’t named Wuhan-400 until Dean revised the book in 1996. Here’s four examples, two of the original text, and two of the revised text.

2 Replies to “Whuan-400 a.k.a. Gorki-400”

OK so he revised the book and wrote WUHAN400 in 1996, still..24 years ago? Thats just as strange since Wuhan has never come up before as a center for spreading a virus. What was happening in 1996 to cause Koontz to alter the name??

By 1996 the Soviet Union was no more so who’s the new “bad guy” for the story that would make sense at the time? China.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was founded in 1956. A minimal amount of research would have made that a good choice of a location within China.

And by all “logic” supporting Dean having predicted this, then the Simpsons beat him by 3 years in 1993. Better yet, the film Akira beat that by another 5 years in 1998. I’ll let you do your own research into those.